Re: Selective Export Question

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Mark,

there are about 100 hooks, see

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-configs/org-hooks.php

And I am very happy to add more, wherever these is a use for it.

- Carsten

On Jan 3, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Mark Elston wrote:

> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> On Dec 22, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Mark Elston wrote:
>>> I have been making progress on my use of org-mode to manage both
>>> my teaching notes and handouts in a single document.  However, there
>>> is something I still have not been able to make happen.  That is
>>> selective exporting of text *without* exporting a headline along  
>>> with
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Here is a sample of what I would like.  In this example I have  
>>> sections
>>> with "common" text (should be in both teaching notes and handouts)  
>>> and
>>> sections that are specific to each individual output format.  What I
>>> have below is set up to export the notes.  What I would like is to
>>> have the text (only) of the non-excluded sections and not the  
>>> headlines.
>> Hi Mark,
>> I think the right path for this is a function that you write and  
>> install
>> in org-export-preprocess-hook.  Then you can set your own  
>> conditions and
>> remove those headlines before Org even tries to look at them.
>> HTH
>> - Carsten
>
> Thanks, Carsten.
>
> It is amazing how much infrastructure there is to support so many
> features.  I wasn't aware of all the hooks available and this one
> escaped my attention.  I will look into it.  My elisp isn't as good
> as my C++ (or Python, or Perl...) but it is probably good enough to
> make use of this.
>
> Mark

- Carsten